Definition for Straining:

• Nisus.

Synonyms for Straining:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • arduous,
  • strenuous.
  •reaching (adjective)
  • re aching,
  • most lunging,
  • out-stretching,
  • more stretching,
  • more lunging,
  • most stretching,
  • out stretching,
  • most outstretching,
  • ex tending,
  • ex-tending,
  • re-aching,
  • more outstretching.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • strain,
  • straining.
  •distortion (noun)
  • distortion.
  •effortful (noun)
  • effortful.
  •overrefinement (noun)
  • overrefinement.
  •push (noun)
  • exertings,
  • drivings,
  • forcings,
  • shovings,
  • strainings.
  •straining (noun)
  • torture,
  • twisting.
  •tension (noun)
  • stretchings,
  • astrictions,
  • tautnesses,
  • tensenesses,
  • tensities.
  •tightness (noun)
  • tension.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • headlong,
  • ripe,
  • thirsty,
  • racing one's motor,
  • unindulgent,
  • impatient,
  • reaching,
  • unforbearing,
  • feeling for,
  • dying to,
  • on pins and needles,
  • having short fuse,
  • hot under collar,
  • hottempered,
  • making for.
  •n.
  • effort,
  • elbow grease,
  • exertion,
  • falsification,
  • misrepresentaation,
  • push,
  • stretching,
  • sweat,
  • tautness,
  • tenseness,
  • tensity,
  • travail,
  • Astriction,
  • thrustings.

Paraphrases for Straining:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    draining, ruining, catching, stifling, shearing, harvesting, Distorting, challenges, waiting, suffocating, Curtailing, Encumbering, trapping, wasting, causing, lessening, exhausting, Capturing, sieving, narrowing, bending, Depleting, screening, yielding, spoiling, reducing, lowering.

Antonyms for Straining:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    effortless.

Straining Sentence Examples:

• He kissed her passionately again and again, while she fought to be free, straining at his arms with her small white hands and trying to turn her face from him.

• Then they waited in silence, straining their ears to catch the first warning of the scout's return.

Homophones for Straining:

• straying, steering, strong, scattering, sauternes, strewing, suturing, st. irenaeus, southernness, socket wrench, storminess, streaming, string cheese, stirring, sternness, strain gage, shoestring, shattering, strenuous, string, starring, strings, star anise, sweet orange, storm sash, stringy, shoe string, steatornis, shuddering, staring, strange, sturnus, strain gauge.

Hyponym for Straining:

• n.

  • act
    elbow grease, effort, exertion, sweat, travail.